China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has published new guidelines on investigating and punishing companies that fail to notify their mergers.

The debate over whether China’s first antitrust probe on large state-owned companies will end up with a settlement or a fine has taken a new turn, following comments made by a government adviser.

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) is standing alone in imposing remedies over Seagate’s acquisition of Samsung’s hard disk business, after the US and EU unconditionally cleared the transaction.

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has approved Nestlé’s US$1.7 billion bid for Chinese sweet and snack-maker Hsu Fu Chi International, in one of the largest foreign takeovers of a Chinese company to date.

Officials from the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division and the US Federal Trade Commission have met with representatives from China's Ministry of Commerce in Washington, DC, to discuss antitrust merger enforcement.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has imposed fines of almost 7 million renminbi (around €813,000) on two pharmaceutical companies for abuse of dominance in the market for blood pressure drugs. The fines are the first significant penalties the authority has issued for breach of competition law.

China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) has conditionally approved a joint venture between General Electric (GE) and state-owned Shenhua Group.

China Telecom and China Unicom, the country’s biggest landline operators, are under investigation by the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) for alleged monopolistic practices.

Yum Brands, which owns KFC and Pizza Hut, has won approval from China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) to buy hot-pot seller Little Sheep Group, strengthening its position as the world’s largest fast food provider.

China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) has surprised practitioners by intervening in a merger because it was unable to determine whether the purchaser had a controlling stake in the target’s competitor.

For China to become a world-class antitrust enforcement regime, it has to make serious changes to the way its antitrust laws apply to the cornerstones of the country’s economy, antitrust specialists say. Ron Knox in New York